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TIL that ostriches sometimes kill lions instead of trying to outrun them.

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O9n4 TIL there is an animal that looks like a gremlin with a “long, bony, witch-like middle finger” called an Aye Aye. These gentle, harmless animals are killed due to local superstition that aye-ayes are harbingers of death, and if an aye-aye points its middle finger at you, it’s a death sentence.
dXrZ TIL slugs evolved from snails, and exposing baby snails to platinum turns them into slugs
4X166 TIL the first verified Meteorite of Martian origin contains the mineral Shergottite, named after a village in India. McSween & Stolper proposed its martian origin in the 1970s , were first ridiculed and later acclaimed when the origin had been confirmed.
PDAG TIL the United States sterilized over 60,000 people from 1907 to 1974 for being feeble-minded or an imbecile
g87A TIL that the CIA secretly spiked the bread from a bakery in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit with enormous quantities of LSD as part of its cold war mind-control experiments.